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PART THREE: REQUIEM
CHAPTER ONE: ZZ9 plural Z alpha
I returned to my dormitory.
Same old very real path through the same old very real forest surrounded entirely by the same old very real parking lots. Same old very real big red door that somebody had written out "ParTY LAIr" under the number in masking tape. Still makes me smile to myself.
Same old very real main room with my same old very real strings of party lights staple gunned to the ceiling. Same old very real floor mates draped over the same old very real furniture while the VCR runs "Akira" and the CD player blares Pink Floyd at a volume much too high.
I head up to my same old very real room.
I open the door and the computer's on.
I left it on, didn't I? Yes, of course. Must have been in the middle of something when I was invited on the Field Trip.
I shake the mouse around to wake the screen saver and see that, apparently, I was on a message board before I left. It seems to be a board dedicated to bad movies or something. At the top of the page is a movie review so I suppose the board is for discussion of the movie.
Well, I'm always up for ripping new bungholes into crappy movies. Let's see what we've got here.
I scan the titles of the other visitor's posts.
"They left us???"
"Oh, SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!"
"This is it? We're as good as dead?"
"No. We're going to stop him."
I was curious about where, exactly, this discussion was going so I read this last post, by one "Wulfgar", in it's entirety.
"We don't need some crazy fairies or whatever saving our asses. Sure this Apoqueror guy might be some demented demon. But, it's ALSO Conqueror. And he's a pushover."
"Yeah but…," this was written by "whack-chick", "If he's as powerful as Zarquon is, or more so, then we're in the deepest of shit."
The whole discussion thread was going like this. They weren't even talking about the movie!
"So the only REAL issue here…" read the post from "(Bearer of the Dissolution) Ken_Kaminski", "…is whom Apoqueror is going to kill first and how."
"I'd disagree," said "(Agreeing with pet human) Junkyard_Dog", "If that wasn't so damn likely. Wesa gunna die."
"You all wanna go out singing?"
This post was in a brand new discussion thread, and it was by somebody calling themselves "Britstina_Simpmore". The message was as bizarre as any of the others, except that it was getting an interesting response from the "Dissolution" kid.
"Oh, shit no!"
"This, sir, is called inevitability," said Britstina_Simpmore.
"Junky, sic 'er!!!"
"Hell, yes!1! You don;'t f**k with tha dogs!!11"
"Pathetic. (Charges at Ken and Junky and pushes them both into the Bottomless Pit.) BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! 11!!!!!1!!!!!111!!!!!"
And those three completely screwed up posters didn't post a single thing after their little exercise in surrealism, so I guess they logged off or something. Too bad, I happen to like impromptu RPG threads.
Another poster called "Kaoru-Dono" was just as upset as I was. They posted a number of articles in response to the conclusion of the thread, most of them full of obscenities. "Wulfgar" joined in this activity, only he was now most upset about "whack-chick" having been "sucked dry by a predatory rosebush."
Totally bizarre. I think I might have to get out of this crazy place. It didn't even seem to be all that popular, anyway. There was just these five posters or so. I felt like I had to get out of this crazy place.
And just then, right when I didn't need it, a familiar name showed up on the thread.
Chica.
The two remaining posters were ecstatic to see her there. I couldn't help but wonder whether it was the same…
"Waketh the joojofloop UP, Angel-Moo." Posted "Chica".
Holy…
She didn't post again. "Kaoru-Dono" posted something frantic about getting attacked by living Beanie Babies and "Wulfgar" posted a dramatic, "NOOOOOO!!!!!!" and I wanted to deny why, exactly, I knew why these people were taking this so seriously.
This person, I should say, as "Wulfgar" was the last poster on board.
And then a new one showed up. This guy called himself "Apoqueror".
"I win the Game." He posted.
"No," came "Wulfgar"'s response, "Blade with whom I have lived, blade with whom I now die, still this one last heart of ice, end this one last life of pain…"
"FFT," posted this new "Apoqueror" guy, "(raises hand and his opponent is evaporated.) I win."
And I'm staring at a completely empty message board.
Empty but for "Apoqueror"'s posts
of "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!".
My spine feels like ice.
"Post a New Topic in the Gossip Forum" said a link in friendly green letters.
I think I might just have to…
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